America’s strength lies in its citizens, not imported labor.
Prioritizing Americans and revitalizing forgotten communities is key to restoring national greatness.
This is Trump’s goal—a New Golden Age for America.
This from amgreatness.com.
The American people deserve the first fruits of America’s wealth and prosperity. America First means putting Americans FIRST. Foreigners need to get to the back of the line. The benefits they receive from our successes ought to be tertiary. America is not a nation of immigrants, rather a nation of citizens. The best and the brightest are already here.
Campaigning for more immigration, of any sort, now when Americans are struggling to purchase houses, buy groceries, and pay their bills, is simply a non-starter.
The simple truth is this: America does not need more immigration. It certainly does not need “high-skill” migrants. The flood of blue-collar workers from the third world since the 1970s has done enormous damage to America’s culture:
– cutting wages,
– driving up housing prices, and
– bringing crime: without Mexican immigration, there would not be Mexican drug gangs in America.
This was bad enough, but so-called high-skill immigration is, in many ways, even worse. In the past two decades, in particular, we have imported an entire class of foreigners who believe their talents and “success” give them a right to rule over the people who welcomed them in.
The damage to American wages and the standard of living is no longer restricted to the poor and the lower middle class.
‘High-skill’ immigration is now cutting into the opportunities of living for college-educated Americans.
The argument that America has a shortage of talented workers is false. One does not need studies to demonstrate the point; one needs only experience.
America, in point of fact, actually has a labor glut.
We know this because everyone assumes, as a matter of course, that American workers should train themselves at their own expense in high-tech STEM fields. American students every year take out billions of dollars in loans to become electrical engineers, computer programmers, and aerospace technicians.
If America truly had a job shortage—if big tech companies really believed they were leaving billions of dollars on the table due to a lack of skilled workers—then they would be scouring American high schools for top-tier talent; they would be offering those students full-ride scholarships and job offers out of high school to acquire an edge in the marketplace.
The labor market is a market like any other. When a good (labor) is scarce and in demand, then the price of that good (wages) goes up. This is not happening.
From 1979 until 2024, productivity of American workers has increased by 81%, but hourly pay and benefits have increased by only 30%. Prior to 1960, wages and productivity tracked nearly exactly.
This disjuncture in wages and productivity is a result of a worker glut. Since the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act dramatically opened America’s borders to the third world, a flood of foreigners has been available to help big American corporations keep the price of labor low.
To wit:
– As of 2015, some 72 million individuals in America could trace their presence in America to Hart-Cellar,
– As of 2024, that number is closer to 100 million, and
– [I]n the last 60 years, America has undergone a massive demographic change that was intentionally designed to transform the ethnic and political makeup of the country.
Keeping the price of labor down, is the reason the stock market has grown 1,379% (inflation-adjusted) since 1990. Instead of value from productivity flowing into the hands of all Americans, it has concentrated among the super-wealthy.
When I suggested to Elon Musk on X that if he wanted to find workers, he ought to try paying them more, the world’s richest man (worth $400 billion) simply laughed at me.
Much of America has been hit hard by outsourcing and immigration (both legal and illegal). Factories throughout much of the country have largely been abandoned, and local tax revenues are simply not enough to maintain existing infrastructure.
There is a lot of untapped human capital in these places. The “forgotten America” has a lot to offer. These places were once wealthy and thriving. You can see it in the craftsmanship of old homes and the rusted hulks of once-mighty rail stations and factories.
Instead of going to Mumbai and Calcutta to poach ‘high-skill’ immigrants—many of whom are simply gaming the system—big American firms should be establishing inroads in their own country!
Pro-immigration defenders argue that the flood of third-world workers is good for the country and native-born Americans because these foreigners build companies and add value.
But what makes America the exception is Americans.
The America of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was no doubt more spiritually healthy. The optimism and dynamism of that relative golden age are no longer found in our time. But with Trump’s leadership and the promise of a New Golden Age, America can become great again.
The character and toughness of America’s founding stock enabled us to reach greatness once before. Inexpensive land, high wages, and constant opportunity were the ingredients to our high birth rate and phenomenal financial and economic power. To get back to that national greatness, we need to cut off the flow of cheap labor and grifter migrants.
Americans are the best and brightest.
We should not be afraid to say so.
